I will readily admit that I am a little bit obsessed with taking pictures of my kids and documenting every little thing they do. Being a second child myself, I was NOT going to let Drew’s milestones go undocumented. We have a traditional baby book for each kid, but I do a pretty bad job of documenting in the book. And I don’t really like that they come already designed so you have no flexibility in what goes into your baby book.

So what can you do??? Well, let me tell you!! There are so many great ways to document your kid’s milestones.

There are some very simple ways – there are apps to document, my mom used to document things about my sister and me in a wall calendar, and of course you can document everything in a blog! {Check out mine!}

One thing I’ve seen lately that I love is all the different ways you can take the blog concept without it being a blog. I’ve seen lots of chalkboard walls lately with special messages (First smile, first solid, etc.) or just growth pictures. Or using a photo editor (my pick for that is Picasa) and ‘writing’ on your pictures. You can make it as simple or fancy as you want.

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Another idea that I just discovered is more of a ‘printable’.

1 Pre-designed cards with milestones that you can add your commentary and dates. Can’t get much easier than that.

2 Remember when Elisabeth created her subway style birth announcements? Here’s a similar concept with firsts as a framed print. How cute for your nursery!

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You can also do stickers – either monthly {like adorable Foster below – our friend’s little boy} or milestone stickers. First smile? Put a sticker on that baby and take a picture! You can find these stickers everywhere. My personal fave would be Etsy.

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Whatever you choose the most important step is it be something you will actually do! I’m so thankful I’ve got my kids’ milestones on my blog because I have used that to go back and fill in the baby books.

How do you document your baby’s milestones? Please share so we can all learn!!

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